Air America

[Daniel Billings]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
To: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: Air America


> but contrary to the myth of the "liberal media", if you listened to NPR 
> during the campaign, and many content analyses were done, coverage of Bush 
> and coverage of Kerry were equal in terms of minutes aired, and coverage 
> of Bush was much more thorough than in the previous election.

I agree with Donna.  NPR tries to be fair.  The point of view of their staff 
comes through from time to time, but they are generally professional.

The Newshour plays it down the middle.

What I appreciate about both is that they do not get as caught up the latest 
media frenzy of the moment as the networks and cable channels do.  The 
attempt to make the "missing explosives" story into an October surprise to 
take down the President was disgusting.  NPR and the Newshour covered the 
story, but not in the frenzied way that the networks did.

-- Dan Billings
    Red State American trapped in a Blue State